I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature-Chapter 1495 - 1059: Transformation (Part 2)

"45 merit points."

"That’s not bad." Zheng Yichen casually gave Lillian a high-five. Reducing 30 points of consumption was already quite a bargain. Although this method couldn’t be used often—or easily replicated—it could definitely be explored further in the future.

Achieving this level was mainly due to Lilith’s strong supportive capabilities. From the beginning of the modification, Lilith had conducted extensive real simulations within the Virtual World.

Otherwise, how could they have completed everything in just one week? Even working behind closed doors requires extensive periods of study.

With the Simulated World Lilith possessed, after acquiring knowledge to increase potential, it could be fully excavated in the shortest possible time.

Then comes the long and steady phase... This is also a common issue with artificial intelligence.

Learns like crazy; once gaining new knowledge, it can quickly grasp and utilize it, integrating it into the existing system and developing the new potential to its fullest.

However, it lacks the inspiration needed for continuous breakthroughs, which is something only natural life forms possess.

In cases like this, it certainly wouldn’t happen with Zheng Yichen’s weapons. Those weapons were originally crafted by Dusk, making it very difficult to modify them from the outside.

The main issue was that other materials couldn’t be properly integrated, while the star core battery was a man-made product with which Lilith had a complete blueprint, allowing more detailed modifications.

This is one of the conveniences of technology. In this ’World’, in many sub-worlds where environments aren’t strong enough, technology is indeed the dominant force.

It ignores the limitations of environmental strength and can always perform at the corresponding intensity.

In high-environment Worlds, if technology doesn’t work well, it’s because it hasn’t kept up. But if it has, then it becomes the dominant force even there.

After completing the relevant optimizations at Dusk, Lilith immediately conducted a self-check and detected changes. The more perfect modifications increased the Unifying engine’s enhancement on Parallel Differentiation.

A new report was handed over to Zheng Yichen.

The consumption of Parallel Differentiation will still increase exponentially, doubling for one, quadrupling for two, but the maximum consumption for self-use has been increased to 32 times, while for external environments, without involving non-self living things, it can reach up to 64 times.

Consumption for living beings was reduced by over half, only about 40% of the original.

However, their Parallel Differentiation here isn’t complete. For example, when non-self life uses Parallel Differentiation, the consumption is borne by Zheng Yichen, but the differentiated life won’t be locked in status or appear weakened.

The enhancement material Zheng Yichen used doesn’t have this effect; even with the Unifying engine’s enhancement, this effect doesn’t appear—it only enhances the existing parts.

Even so, it’s quite formidable, a quantum leap even!

The increased consumption limit allows Zheng Yichen to significantly integrate parallel entities used for unification.

At sixfold integration, the consumption can be seen as unchanged, but starting from the seventh level, it’s different: the 128-times consumption at the seventh level is directly lowered to 96 times, and the 512-times consumption at the ninth level is reduced to 160 times...

The further back you go, the more the consumption decreases. Zheng Yichen, pushing the limits, can now increase the consumption originally generated by tenfold unification directly to thirty-twofold.

However, this is just theoretical. When Parallel Unification is initiated, there is already a consumption, not just during-action consumption.

Once initiated, if he doesn’t act, the consumption is very low, but this low consumption is also synchronized with the current consumption multiplier.

Attacks are relatively manageable. His stamina can support him in swinging his weapon with full strength all day, so over a thousand times the normal attack consumption... alright, it’s still stressful.

Mainly, normal full-force attacks have buffer time; a single consumption isn’t large and doesn’t strain the body, but a thousandfold consumption is different.

His endurance recovery rate is fast, which doesn’t mean the endurance bar is that long.

Sustained consumption can be offset by Regenerative Ability; however, with instant consumption, Regenerative Ability’s effect isn’t as significant.

Stamina and blue bars are still manageable. If they’re instantly depleted, even if overdrawn, it mostly just results in lost health, but if overdrawn severely, life itself can’t withstand it.

Thus, without sufficient support, even normal attacks are challenging under thousandfold consumption, let alone attacks that had high consumption initially.

Moreover, there’s the consumption generated by initiating Parallel Unification.

Fortunately, this can be managed. Time isn’t urgent, so Zheng Yichen can proceed step by step, without needing to differentiate dozens of parallel entities at once—he can differentiate a few, stabilize, then continue. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

As long as he can ensure his Regenerative Ability keeps up, maintaining post-combat state consumption is manageable.

In any case, the increase of an increment limit brings tremendous improvement, and even the higher external Parallel Differentiation consumption is an enhancement.

An external increase of up to 64 times, even with additional consumption for living beings or things with Special Power, the base rate is lower, reducing those consumptions accordingly.

Significant enhancement, yet its external use isn’t as big as imagined.

Helping the enemy create parallel entities isn’t causing trouble for himself? Parallel entities can’t exist in the same space, so Parallel Differentiation is mostly tied with parallel space operations.

Otherwise, it’s just meaningless operations, and he can’t very well give the enemy a unification, right?

However, using it for his own team would be great. If they encountered multiple troublesome enemies, they could directly use parallel space to separate them, and differentiate allied combat power to fight in different parallel spaces to offset the numbers disadvantage.

As for using it on enemies, we’ll have to wait for Lilith to unlock new technology.

To use Parallel Differentiation to lock the enemy in their worst state or to weaken the enemy’s strength using Parallel Differentiation.

If either of these technologies can be realized, then Parallel Differentiation against enemies would be a force to reckon with.

No matter how strong Regenerative Ability might be, using Parallel Differentiation to lock an enemy’s state is much stronger than a Curse that limits recovery.

Zheng Yichen understood this deeply himself.

But both technologies are difficult to realize, mainly due to the need for powerful ’engine’ support. Using Parallel Differentiation to lock states is easier than splitting enemy strength.

But no matter how much easier, he can only look on it.

If the power supply can’t hold up, no amount of development matters; it’s like material science limiting technological progress.

In Lilith’s report, there is an analysis of the original Unifying engine.

In terms of Parallel Differentiation, the original Unifying engine’s increment multiplier might be in the range of eight times or four times.

Her star core battery had been enhanced with the Sky Pillar crystal, possessing the essence of World Origin. In terms of energy release, it can’t compare with the World Origin core, but in terms of quality, it’s quite close.

Only the battery’s output doesn’t reach a level to produce qualitative change.

"Alright, this is not bad, I even think Dusk’s strengthening is too cheap." After reading the report, Zheng Yichen sincerely said.

Lilith, sitting on the motorcycle’s handlebar, with a slightly speechless expression on her small face remarked, "BOSS, you need to understand, the enhancement we do is done using finished products. What’s really expensive is the finished product used as enhancement material."

This enhancement was indeed not costly, only 15 merit points, but behind it? It was supported by the highest technical crystal of local civilization in a World.

The ’chip’ Zheng Yichen dismantled from the Unifying engine alone cost unknown sacrifices from the local civilization of the previous World.

Dusk isn’t like those black market merchants in games, charging players an expensive price for strengthening materials they worked hard for.

In this regard, Dusk could be seen as very ’kind-hearted.’

"The reason it’s so ’cheap’, is because the local forces of the last World paid our dues for us."

Lilith’s earnest explanation made Zheng Yichen laugh.

"Hahaha, exactly, that’s one good deed they did. In the future, we’ll build more merit by dealing with more Boundary Breakers for them."

Even if the local forces of the last World ’paid upfront’, these enhancement materials were acquired by him through his capabilities, so he’ll use them as needed.

In a good mood, Zheng Yichen returned to the Dusk Cathedral, handled the letters inside, and returned home with Katrina and the others.

This time back, he started dealing with the new battery issue. It almost took a week, so it felt like not having a vacation at all. Now that the task was done, vacation time awaited!

But at this moment, Zheng Yichen was itching to find some challenging targets...